I have the subjective sense that the rate of massive, irreparable flops in software has gone down a lot. (Very anecdotally, the latest "permanent failure" on W

I have the subjective sense that the rate of massive, irreparable flops in software has gone down a lot. (Very anecdotally, the latest "permanent failure" on Wikipedia's list of major failed software projects is from 2014. That list is worth a read regardless.) Projects still get cancelled, budgets and timelines get blown out, features and testing get compromised. But at least in dedicated software companies, it's pretty rare for something to get through 90% (or 150%) of its allotted development time and then be completely discarded as unsalvageable. (For technical reasons; market changes are a different beast.) Projects in technical crisis are either apparent sooner or have usable elements, rather than failing outright at the end of a waterfall. Of course, there's a lot of room to debate what changed and why. If Agile led projects to fail sooner or less dramatically, that's still important, but less notable than if it changed them into successes. And a lot of technological advances have helped too; things that might have been outright failures as shrinkwrapped software can become late or overrun projects in the era of digital distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_and_overbudget_custom_software_projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_and_overbudget_...